In Burma, the Same State That Pardons Also Imprisons
အစိုးရတစ္ရပ္တည္းက ေထာင္လည္းခ်၊ လြတ္ျငိမ္းလည္းေပး
(သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္)
24 April 2019, London, UK – Burmese Muslims and ethnic Rohingya were among those missing from the more than 9,000 prisoners pardoned last week by Burma’s President Win Myint to mark the annual Thingyan festival.
၂၀၁၉၊ ဧၿပီ ၂၄။ လန္ဒန္၊ ယူေက။ သႀကၤန္ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးအထိမ္းအမွတ္အေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦး၀င္းျမင့္၏ ျပစ္ဒဏ္လြတ္ျငိမ္း သက္သာခြင့္ေပးခဲ့ေသာ အက်ဥ္းသား ၉၀၀၀ေက်ာ္တြင္ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား ပါ၀င္ျခင္းမရွိေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ရသည္။
The Burmese government regularly grants pardons—not to be confused with amnesty—to coincide with the Buddhist New Year, largely to those serving sentences for minor drug offenses. Only two political prisoners were sent home this year, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and multiple media reports. There are hundreds remaining behind bars.
ျမန္မာအစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာႏွစ္သစ္ကူးႏွင့္တိုက္ဆိုင္ၿပီး မူးယစ္ေဆးမႈျဖင့္အက်ဥ္းက်ေနသူ အက်ဥ္းသားအမ်ားအျပားကုိ လြတ္ျငိမ္းသက္သာခြင့္ေပးေလ့ရွိသည္။ ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ၂ ဦးသာ အိမ္ျပန္လာႏုိင္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ရာႏွင့္ခ်ီေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား က်န္ရွိေနေသး ေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕(AAPP)ႏွင့္ မီဒီယာမ်ား၏ ေဖာ္ျပ ခ်က္အရ သိရသည္။
Fundamental Rights Cannot Be Voted Down: Freedom of Worship Denied to Muslims in Magwe Region’s Chauk Township
အေျခခံရပုိင္ခြင့္ကုိ မဲခြဲ၍မရ : မေကြးတုိင္း၊ ေခ်ာက္ၿမိဳ႕က မြတ္စလင္ မ်ား လြတ္လပ္စြာကိုးကြယ္ခြင့္ ျငင္းပယ္ခံရ
( 1 ) BHRN condemns the rejection of a plea by local Muslims in Chauk Township, Magwe Region, for permission to resume worship in two mosques in the town. These mosques were set on fire by mobs during riots in 2006. The head of the Township Administration Department rejected the proposal after conducting a public vote on whether to honour the plea.
(၁) မေကြးတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး ေခ်ာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္က ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ ဘာသာေရး၊ လူမ်ိဳးေရးပဋိပကၡအတြင္း မီးရႈိ႕ ဖ်က္ဆီး ပိတ္ပင္ခံခဲ့ရေသာ ဗလီ၀တ္ေက်ာင္းႏွစ္ခုကို ျပန္လည္ ၀တ္ျပဳခြင့္ရရန္ ေဒသခံမြတ္စလင္တို႔၏ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈအား ျငင္းပယ္လိုက္ျခင္းအေပၚ BHRN အေနျဖင့္ ကန္႔ကြက္ရႈတ္ခ်ပါသည္။ ေဒသခံမြတ္စလင္တို႔၏ တင္ျပေတာင္းဆိုမႈကို ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး က ရပ္ကြက္အတြင္း ဆႏၵမဲေကာက္ယူကာ ပယ္ခ် လိုက္ ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
Burma Must Protect Civilians in Rakhine Conflict
London, UK -- The Burma Human Rights Network calls upon the Burmese Military to immediately cease operations inside of civilian areas in Rakhine State, particularly the use of artillery and helicopters, in their efforts to combat the Arakan Army. While the conflict between the Arakan Army and the Burmese Military has been ongoing for years, it has escalated significantly this past March with civilians increasingly injured or killed as a result.
“In this conflict, the Burmese Military is proving again that they have no concern for human life or the safety of civilians. This is especially true of minorities in the country and the ethnic Rakhine and Rohingya living in Rakhine state are evidence of this inhumane disregard. The International Community must insist that Burma initiates a ceasefire with the Arakan Army to protect civilians from further harm,” Said BHRN’s Executive Director Kyaw Win.
Statement on discrimination and coercion faced by minority groups in citizenship registration process
နိဳင္ငံသား မွတ္ပုံတင္ျပဳလုပ္ရာတြင္ လူနည္းစုမ်ားအား ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံၿပီး ဖိအားေပးမႈမ်ားအေပၚ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
1. For many decades, members of the minority Islamic and Hindu religious communities and those who belong to Rohingya, Kaman, and Christian Lisu minority ethnic groups in Myanmar have faced arbitrary delays and hardships in applying for citizenship documents and identification cards.
၁။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ လူနည္းစုဘာသာ၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္မ်ား၊ ဟိႏၵိဴဘာသာ၀င္မ်ား၊ လူနည္းစု မ်ိဳးႏြယ္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာလူမ်ိဳး၊ လီဆူးလူမ်ိဳးႏွင့္ ကမန္လူမ်ိဳးတုိ႔မွာ ႏိုင္ငံသား စိစစ္ေရး ကတ္ျပား ေလွ်ာက္ထားရာတြင္ အခက္အခဲအၾကပ္အတည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္လာ ရသည္မွာ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္မ်ားစြာရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။
Special Rapporteur Report Highlights Need for Accountability
London, UK – The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) welcomes the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma and the attention paid to limitations on citizenship rights for Muslims—an issue that BHRN has documented extensively.
BHRN particularly supports Yanghee Lee’s calls on the Burmese government to “cease arbitrary and discriminatory denial or restriction of citizenship rights and documentation to members of minority religions or ethnicities” and her demands that the long-abused 1982 Citizenship Law be amended or replaced.
